Don't stop deriding us

摘要

Crafted out of latex rubber, the marionettes of "Les Guignols de l'Info", a French television show, recall a pre-digital age. It takes two puppeteers to manipulate the fingers and facial features of each rubber character. Boxes of dismembered flesh-coloured hands are piled up in backstage store cupboards, along with plastic bags of legless rubber bodies. Yet such is the programme's iconic status among French viewers that reports of its possible demise stirred much indignation, even among the politicians it parodies.